Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
TACITUSThings are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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